The vision for UPI extended to the world in 1982. The first UPI international team consisted of Executive Director Tom Roy, and three volunteers, faith coaches, Jake Boss from Michigan, Dr. Andy Hill from Illinois, and Al Strong, Michigan. Tom Roy had taken his college baseball team to Puerto Rico the previous year and had seen the tremendous interest that country had for the game. In conjunction with Joe Cora and the local church, the first team travelled there and held baseball clinics. The Division has now expanded to reaching over 50 countries including Russia, China, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Australia, Uganda, Kenya and throughout Europe.

The main format is much like the United States in that baseball clinics are conducted with evangelistic messages at the conclusion. UPI tries to work through Bible-believing mission organizations in each country in which it participates. Some countries are closed to the Gospel message. In those, we try to work through government or local baseball authorities.